Common questions

No. Industry payments are legal, publicly reported by design, and common across medicine. Most are routine: meals at educational events, consulting work, research funding. This site exists so you can see and understand those relationships, not so you can assume the worst about them.

A few common reasons. Clinicians with no reported payments do not appear in the data at all, which is true of many doctors. The name a company reported may differ from the one you know (initials, hyphenations, name changes). And some clinician types were added to the program recently: physician assistants and nurse practitioners have been covered since program year 2021. Try searching by last name only, and add a state filter.

The everyday category: meals, travel and lodging, consulting fees, speaking fees, honoraria, education, gifts, and royalties. They are reported separately from research payments (funding tied to studies, often paid to an institution rather than the clinician) and from ownership interests. GlassScript never adds these categories together silently.

Companies can tag a payment with up to five products it was related to. The tag is an association, not an allocation: it does not say how much of the payment relates to each product, and it does not say the payment was made to promote the product. We write "associated with" because that is exactly what the data supports.

Our current copy is the CMS publication of June 30, 2026, covering program years 2019-2025. CMS publishes annually, about six months after each program year closes, and republishes corrections in later cycles. We refresh when CMS does.

Yes. Clinicians can register with CMS Open Payments, review the records companies submitted about them, and dispute anything inaccurate through the official review-and-dispute process. GlassScript cannot change the federal record, but our refreshes pick up CMS corrections. If our display does not match the official data, email hello@glasscript.com.

No. Searches are processed to answer your query and are not stored with your identity. There are no accounts, no ad trackers, and we do not sell data. Details are on the privacy page.

The data cannot tell you that. Studies have found associations between payments and prescribing patterns at the population level, but a line in a database says nothing certain about an individual clinician's judgment. If you are curious, the best move is a direct, friendly question at your next appointment; our doctor pages suggest a few.

From companies, not doctors. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report transfers of value to CMS, which publishes them yearly in Open Payments. Every figure on GlassScript traces to that publication, and every computed figure follows the rules on how we compute things.

GlassScript is free for consumers, with no ads. We plan to earn revenue from a paid data API, monitoring tools, and embeds for organizations that need programmatic access. We take no money from drug or device makers.